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{{Infobox organization
| name = Medact
| name = Medact
| logo = [[File:Medact logo 2015.png|thumb|Medact logo 2015]]
| logo = Medact logo 2015.png
| caption = Medact logo 2015
| type = Charity for health professionals
| type = Membership organisation for health workers
| founded_date = {{Start date|1992}}
| founded_date = {{Start date|1992}}
| director = David McCoy
| director = Sophie Neuburg
| location = [[London]], United-Kingdom <!-- this parameter modifies "Headquarters" -->
| location = [[London]], United-Kingdom <!-- this parameter modifies "Headquarters" -->
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| area_served = Worldwide
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| focus = Public health
| mission = Educate and inform the wider health community on the issues it works on; and to lobby and campaign for change
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| num_employees = 7
| num_members = 1500
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| homepage = [https://www.medact.org medact.org]
| Non-profit_slogan = Challenging barriers to health
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| homepage = [http://www.medact.org medact.org]
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'''Medact''' is a non-profit organization and registered charity,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1081097&subid=0|title=MEDACT - Charity 1081097}}</ref> whose mission is "to support health professionals from all disciplines to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human right to health".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mission|url=https://www.medact.org/about/mission/|access-date=2021-08-22|website=Medact|language=en-GB}}</ref>
'''Medact''' is an organisation for and of health professionals working on issues related to conflict, poverty and the environment. It aims to build bridges between different professional communities to improve health worldwide, to mobilise, educate and inform on ways to support policy change and shift public attitudes.
<ref name= "About Medact"> About Medact. http://www.medact.org/about/</ref>


Medact was formed in 1992 following the merger of [[Medical Association for Prevention of War|the Medical Association for the Prevention of War]] (MAPW) and the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW). Following the merger of these not-for-profit medical peace organizations, Medact broadened its mission to include the health threats posed by [[climate change]] and [[economic inequality]].
Medact works with other professional organisations in the UK such as the BMA, the Royal Colleges, the Royal Society of Medicine, relevant university faculties an public health departments to support the wider health community to be more effective social change agents.
<ref name= "Medact Annual Report 2014"> Medact Annual Report.2014. http://www.medact.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/medact_Annual-Report2015_WEB2.pdf</ref>


Medact is affiliated with [[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.medact.org/wmd_nuclear.php |title=Medact - WMD & Conflict - Nuclear |accessdate=2007-04-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630232907/http://medact.org/wmd_nuclear.php |archivedate=2007-06-30 }}</ref>
It also works with similar overseas organisations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility (USA) and Mecico International (Germany), to strengthen the global health, peace and justice movement. It has also formed a partnership with Health Poverty in Action, a UK-based charity that works with marginalised communities in 13 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Medact seeks to strengthen bridges between professionals and communities and thus collaborates with the Peoples Health Movement, which is a loose trans-national network of community organisations, individuals and non-government organisations with strong roots in the global South.
<ref name= "Medact Annual Report 2014"> Medact Annual Report.2014. http://www.medact.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/medact_Annual-Report2015_WEB2.pdf</ref>


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[[File:Pamphlet; The medical consequences of nuclear war Wellcome L0075369.jpg|thumb|[[Pamphlet]]: The medical consequences of [[nuclear war]]]]
==Medact's recent actions==


==Notable work==
In 2014, Medact started a global health lectures series entitled Global Health Justice, in partnership with Queen Mary University, London. The series attracted over 300 attendees and aimed to explain the interconnected nature of topics of Medact's campaigns. Speakers included experts from several academic fields, medical journalists and health campaigners.


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Between 2001 and 2012, Medact produced a number of reports on the [[Iraq War#Iraqi healthcare deterioration|health impact of the war in Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Health and Health Policy in Iraq|url=https://www.medact.org/project/health-health-policy-iraq-2002-2012/|access-date=2021-08-22|website=Medact|language=en-GB}}</ref> They have issued three reports and two shorter "updates", have defended the [[Lancet surveys of casualties of the Iraq War]] and, as part of the Count the Casualties campaign, have called for an independent investigation into increased mortality in Iraq.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.countthecasualties.org.uk/ |title=Count the Casualties Homepage |access-date=2017-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319194116/http://www.countthecasualties.org.uk/ |archive-date=2007-03-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Medact – with our partners Healthy Planet UK – are working with the major health institutions in the UK to take this commitment further by divesting from the fossil fuel industry. As a community committed to improving health worldwide, we hope that organisations such as the Royal Colleges and the Wellcome Trust, will remove their investments from an industry whose very business model threatens to completely undermine human and planetary health. The Fossil Free Health campaign enjoyed its first success in June 2014, when the British Medical Association committed to divest from fossil fuels.
<ref name= "Campaign Fossil Fuel Divestment"> Fossil Free Health. http://www.medact.org/campaign/fossil-free-health/</ref>


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Medact has produced reports documenting the phenomenon of health worker migration from less economically developed nations to rich countries, which they describe as a "perverse subsidy".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Medact|date=2014-09-10|title=Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa's billion-dollar losses|url=https://www.medact.org/2014/resources/reports/honest-accounts/|access-date=2021-08-22|website=Medact|language=en-GB}}</ref>
Divesting will send an important message to the world that climate change is real and requires immediate preventative action through a drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and rapid transition to a zero-carbon world. Such changes may be considered disruptive and difficult, but are necessary and can bring enormous benefits to human health and well-being both in the short term and in the years and decades to come.
<ref name= "Campaign Fossil Fuel Divestment"> Fossil Free Health. http://www.medact.org/campaign/fossil-free-health/</ref>


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Medact also works on the health of refugees and migrants in the UK, in particular documenting and challenging barriers to healthcare.
==Medact's history==


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Medact has been involved in the Global Health Watch, a civil society project aiming to produce alternative versions of the [[World Health Organization]]'s annual World Health Report.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ghwatch.org|title=ghwatch.org|publisher=}}</ref>
Medact grew out of the medical peace movement. It was formed in 1992 following the merger of two older organisations: the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) and the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW). Medact and its predecessor organisations have their archive housed at the Wellcome Library and Bradford University, to find out more about these materials please visit our Archive page.

After the merger of MCANW and MAPW, Medact recognised the need to adopt a broader global health agenda – one that would incorporate the health threats posed by climate change as well as the structural violence of unjust economic policies and systems.

Medact has consistently produced high quality work over the past twenty years. But it has greater potential to help mobilise, support and organise health professionals to be more effective agents for social change.
<ref>http://www.medact.org/about/</ref>


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[[File:Pamphlet; The medical consequences of nuclear war Wellcome L0075369.jpg|thumb|[[Pamphlet]]: The medical consequences of [[nuclear war]].]]

Medact grew out of the medical peace movement of the 1950s and 1960s and was formed from the merger of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) a,d the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW). Members protested against the [[British replacement of the Trident system]].<

Medact is affiliated to [[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]. <ref>http://www.medact.org/wmd_nuclear.php</ref>

==Medact's previous work==

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Medact has been tracking the [[Iraq War#Iraqi healthcare deterioration|health impact of the war in Iraq]].<ref>http://www.medact.org/pub_reports.php</ref> They have issued a three reports and two shorter 'updates', have defended the [[Lancet surveys of casualties of the Iraq War]] and, as part of the Count the Casualties campaign have called for an independent investigation into increased mortality in Iraq.<ref>[http://www.countthecasualties.org.uk countthecasualties.org.uk]</ref>

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Medact has produced reports documenting the phenomenon of health worker migration from less economically developed nations to rich countries, which they describe as a "perverse subsidy".<ref>http://www.medact.org/hpd_brain_drain.php</ref>

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Medact also work on the health of refugees in the UK, in particular documenting and challenging barriers to healthcare.

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Medact have been involved in the Global Health Watch, a civil society project aiming to produce alternative versions of the [[World Health Organisation]]'s annual World Health Report.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ghwatch.org|title=ghwatch.org|publisher=}}</ref>

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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://www.medact.org }}


==Collaborators==
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* [[Queen Mary University]]
* [[Queen Mary University]]


==See also==
* [[Right to health]]

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* {{Official website|https://www.medact.org }}
*The archive of Medact (and its predecessor body the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons) is held at [[Wellcome Collection]], and is searchable in the library catalogue (SA/MED).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wellcomecollection.org/|title=Wellcome Collection|website=Wellcome Collection|language=en|access-date=2018-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archives.wellcomelibrary.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(AltRefNo='sa/med')|title=Wellcome Library Western Manuscripts and Archives catalogue|website=archives.wellcomelibrary.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-04}}</ref>

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Latest revision as of 14:10, 20 May 2024

Medact
Founded1992 (1992)
TypeMembership organisation for health workers
FocusPublic health
Location
Employees7
Websitemedact.org

Medact is a non-profit organization and registered charity,[1] whose mission is "to support health professionals from all disciplines to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human right to health".[2]

Medact was formed in 1992 following the merger of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) and the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW). Following the merger of these not-for-profit medical peace organizations, Medact broadened its mission to include the health threats posed by climate change and economic inequality.

Medact is affiliated with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.[3]

Pamphlet: The medical consequences of nuclear war

Notable work

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Between 2001 and 2012, Medact produced a number of reports on the health impact of the war in Iraq.[4] They have issued three reports and two shorter "updates", have defended the Lancet surveys of casualties of the Iraq War and, as part of the Count the Casualties campaign, have called for an independent investigation into increased mortality in Iraq.[5]

Medact has produced reports documenting the phenomenon of health worker migration from less economically developed nations to rich countries, which they describe as a "perverse subsidy".[6]

Medact also works on the health of refugees and migrants in the UK, in particular documenting and challenging barriers to healthcare.

Medact has been involved in the Global Health Watch, a civil society project aiming to produce alternative versions of the World Health Organization's annual World Health Report.[7]

Collaborators

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "MEDACT - Charity 1081097".
  2. ^ "Mission". Medact. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  3. ^ "Medact - WMD & Conflict - Nuclear". Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-04-03.
  4. ^ "Health and Health Policy in Iraq". Medact. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  5. ^ "Count the Casualties Homepage". Archived from the original on 2007-03-19. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  6. ^ Staff, Medact (2014-09-10). "Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa's billion-dollar losses". Medact. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  7. ^ "ghwatch.org".
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Medact.
  1. ^ "Wellcome Collection". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  2. ^ "Wellcome Library Western Manuscripts and Archives catalogue". archives.wellcomelibrary.org. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
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